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Expert Reviews from other websites (1 review)Nokia N97 Review at Mobile Phones UK (1 June 2009)  Nokia N97 Consumer Reviews (48 reviews)Write a review of the Nokia N97! Please share your experiences to help other people choose the product that's best for them. This is a review site, not a forum, so please don't just ask questions. Please do not use swear words or offensive language, and please, no advertising! Reviewed by J Roberts on 01/03/2010I have had an N97 for about 6 months now. I bought it direct from Nokia. Almost from day 1 there have been problems with the operation of this phone. It regularly shuts down and reboots during use. It freezes mid-use and won't unlock unless plugged into the charger. The slide button on the side of the handset, used to lock and unlock the touch-screen, often does not respond and you have to slide it several times to make it respond. The battery life is poor and rarely lasts more than half a day (without excessive use). I have also had problems recharging the phone and the charge mini USB does not fit properly into the side of the phone. Therefore I am never sure if it is charging or not. Recently it has stopped charging at all and I am totally unable to use the phone at all. Despite the fact that the problems started a matter of weeks after I received the phone and the handset is totally unfit for purpose, Nokia are refusing to refund me my money. Having read lots of online reviews and comments, I can see that by no means am I the only person struggling with these problems. I bitterly regret buying this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Patrick on 27/02/2010 I have the displeasure of owning a Nokia phone,especially the N97. Who ever thought about inventing that piece of trash should be locked up! The phone...,does everything apart from working properly. Get rid of any Nokia phone available. Rating: Reviewed by kong fu on 27/02/2010 very good phone Rating: Reviewed by Miss M on 26/02/2010 I got this phone following an upgrade from my N95 8gb. So far it has not let me down, particularly as I was worried from all the posters below me! I did seriously consider getting the iphone 3gs, but because it was missing some very basic features which are on my N95 (including the ability to bluetooth to other phones), I decided to get the N97. I have had absolutely no trouble with it and it works like a dream! The battery life is very good, currently working at nearly 3+ days before having to recharge. The apps and widgets are great fun and I love the fact that you can do two different tasks without having to exit one programe. Also, the homescreen is fully customisable, I can pick and chose what widgets and apps I want. The slide out keyboard is great and feels solid. The only downside is that mine did not come with a memory card in the box, so I had to buy one seperately, but apart from that, fantastic! Rating: Reviewed by Nina Colquhoun on 19/02/2010 I absolutely hate this phone and am stuck with it for another year. It is the worst phone I have ever owned, so slow, unreliable, it has been fixed/replaced six times. I will never get a Nokia again! Rating: Reviewed by Woodsy 1405 on 17/02/2010 I was initially very pleased with this phone. It had great functions and I thought that all my prayers had been answered. HOWEVER I was wrong. Quite frankly it is rubbish and has been back to the shop twice and I am expecting more visits. It has had all the upgrades but still freezes and locks itself. No matter how many times I unlock the screen remains unresponsive unless you give it about five minutes to catch up. This is the most expensive but the worse phone I have ever owned. Don't do it unless you are on contact or you WILL regret it. Personally I hope it continues to give up so my service provider will replace it with something that works when it should (Like a Sony) Rating: Reviewed by jane on 01/02/2010 worst phone ever made by nokia! Upgraded from the n95 when it first came out, was ok for about two months... Then the problems started! First one day it turned itself off, wouldnt come back on, when it actually did it just froze on the nokia start up! Even taking the battery out wouldnt work! Sooo... Sent it back, got a new one. Same thing happened again! Got another new one... Then that one is completely messed up! The button at the side u use to unlock it fell of after two days! The front camera comes on by itself and takes pictures non stop until u take the battery out! Plus... The keyboard didnt even work from day 1!! On my 4 phone now, worst thing i ever done getting a 24 month contract with it!!!! X Rating: Reviewed by robert on 24/01/2010 ive had this phone for 2 months now i never dropped it or anything and now it wont charge! is a brilliant phone when it "works" but has its faults. Rating: Reviewed by Jerome Shikongeni on 18/01/2010 i own a nokia n97. To be honest i must say its a bit of an anticlimax after all the beautiful reviews i read before i got it. Maybe my expectations were too high. Ok i'm not sayin its a bad phone but i've got my issues with it. Let me put it this way- you have windows xp and you loved it- it was easy to use and more of a soldier in the field. Ok then you get vista and it feels more like a secretary in an office who is on that time of the month(period as in fullstop hehehe). I had a N95 before and despite its structural problems eg. irritating battery cover, i loved it. It allowed me to do things with it, kinda like xp. Now i've got this n97 and i feel something's missing. It freezes and crushes... a lot! And i find myself havin to hard reset it just to get it functioning. Irritating after customizing it to my liking and having to restart all over again. Its got a lot of functions in it but most are internet dependant which makes it an expensive machine to use afte r one has already spent so much gettin it. I love music and i loved my music and gaming keys on the n95. It would have been nice to have them on somewhere on the n97. The touchscreen is huge but the response can get rather iffy. The structural makeup of the phone is good though. I dont have to worry about the battery cover breaking every time i put it in my pockets like i had to with the n95. I'd like to see how it does after i update the firmware to v2 though. Hopefully it will become the machine that i'd love to have. Thinking of moving away from nokia for a while by the. Maybe get an iphone or google's latest foray, the Nexus one. Hopefully the n900 will be a better nseries phone Rating: Reviewed by Paul Allen on 14/01/2010 The Worst phone ever! What have nokia done? The idea is good but it just does not work. You need two hands to even use the "speed dial" feature. Hate it Hate it hate!!! and i love Nokia or used to. I have put my n97 away ready to to mmobile hell. I am using my trusty old N95 which is by far the best phone i have ever used. Rating: Reviewed by Tristan on 11/01/2010 I love what nokia have done in the past. I think the symbian os they use is one of the easiest ways to get around a phone. but the N97 just seems to fail at everything. Restarting, slow to respond, freezing, not responding at all...the list goes on. i'd say steer clear of this one. Hopefully nokia decide to make something user friendly in the near future and and we can all stop complaining about their not so brilliant products. Rating: Reviewed by ariel on 08/01/2010 I have Nokia N97 and not found any page to download apps, games, free themes. Until I found: www.touchnokia.com. It is recommend! Rating: Reviewed by Ben on 08/01/2010 seems like everyone else is having the same problems as me. really is an awful phone. very nice to look at but non the less awful. i was put off buying the iphone because of the cost and poor deals available so went for the n97 instead. ended up with a £40 a month contract for 24months. one of the biggest mistakes i have ever made. had it for about 6 month now and desperate to get rid but nowhere will offer what i would regard as a reasonable price because of all the problems with it. environfone are offering last time i checked £185. for a phone that is less than a year old and was surrounded by vast amounts of hype. surely this must tell nokia something. lets list the problems 1 - awful quality sound. my gf has the 5800 which i my opinion has brilliant quality sound and is supposed to be a lower range model than the n97 (i am not defending the 5800, as this to is an awful attempt by nokia as it cant even keep the right time). although vodafone did give me some free speakers which i must admit are good, but to my understanding are only abailable to vodafone? 2 - the lock button fell off. so now i am forever having to slide the phone up and down to unlock it which gets very annoying. i would send it back for repair but vodafone will not give me a replacement so i would be without a phone for christ knows how long. 3 - the applications available are, most of them, awful. are they seriously trying to compete with the ipone here because they are just a joke. they only good one i found was a spirit level. works well, but not much use really. 4 - the charger adapter that came with the phone so you can use old nokia chargers. i thought this was a briliant idea. especially when you are staying over at a friends for instance. worked well for first few months, now is completely knackered! 5 - screen is very un-responsive. i am forever having to keep pressing the screen for it to work. then because it has been pressed so many times it just freezes! 6 - when unlocking the phone(sliding it up and down due to lock falling off)it often unlocks but the light does not come on. so this means i have to press the power button, squint so i can see where it says lock screen and keys and lock it just so i can unlock it again. 7 - the little pen that comes with the phone, while nice to look at it rubbish. most other touch phones have a pen that slides out so it is hidden away when not in use. this comes attatched to a little flimsy piece of string and makes the phone look cheap. however, this is one of the things on my n97 yet to break. probably the only part nokia didnt actually make themselves. i could probably go on forever about the problems with this phone. nokia has really dissappointed me with this phone. in the past i have been a loyal nokia customer, but if this phone is anything to go buy, it will be the last nokia i ever buy! Rating: Reviewed by nottmbantam on 02/01/2010 I've not had this phone since June, when it was first released. I have upgraded the firmware on the phone three times now, and am currently running on v20 - which is by far the bet, and what the phone should have been relased with all those months ago. THe previous FW versions were very poor, and I had a lot of problems with v12 - crashing the phone several times a day. With that FW version, I would nt even give the phone any stars at all. However, with v20, the phone work much much better, but it still has one bug ( call answering bug ) so with that in mind, I can only give it four. If you do buy the handset, make sure it's got v20 firmware installed, if not, then don't bother. Rating: Reviewed by mona on 27/12/2009 i love this phone. Its just a matter of getting used to it n knowing how to use it. Battery life is a little short but nokia offer current softwrz to resolve that. You do need softwer updates. I cant get enough of it. Iv had it for 3weeks and every day i discover summat new. I had the n95 8g an u cant compare it to th n97. N nokia have had faults in a batch but have not dispatched any till the problem was sorted. It is a mini laptop with easy access internt, quick and reliable. My only thing wud be when the battry is low it tends to slow down. Rating: Reviewed by Emily on 22/12/2009 THE WORST PHONE IN EXISTENCE! This phone is the worst phone I've ever had. The problems are endless, it crashes, it'll refuse to charge, the screen freezes, it wont send picture messages, internet makes the phone freeze for hours, messages occasionally delete themselves. Plus as a phone itself its just awful compared to the ipone considering how expensive it is. I've had it repaired twice now and its still just as bad. Everyone I know with this phone has had problems with it and even phones for you said that 3 out of 4 people have had to send this phone back. DO NOT GET IT! not worth the risk. This does not deserve one star!!! Rating: Reviewed by giridhar on 16/12/2009 giridhar excellent Rating: Reviewed by wayne on 10/12/2009 this phone is nothing but a load of rubbish it freezes ,have to take out battery to get it to work, the camera lens is scratched where you open camera ,will not buy nokia again Rating: Reviewed by Hong Kong on 10/12/2009 not nice!!! stupid pulling lock it doesn't function all the ways, i got to miss the calls as i can't unlock the phone after few trials!! the phone will restart or switch off itself for no reason, and sometimes it will get hung out when multi-tasking! it's the most expensive phone i have ever had, but it makes me the greatest disappointed!! Rating: Reviewed by don on 08/12/2009 I love it but hate certain things like the freezing which at times requires battery removal! I have a white one and cannot find a way to turn the lit keys off. This should not be automatic as many times there is enough light to see the keys. When the keys light up then you cannot see the black chacter outlines. I don't like that at all. Stick with black colour hand set. The scratch guard savers are way toooo expensive! Come on competitors, give us a hand. I really love the 32gbyt and music and pictures are superb! Unless I just haven't figured out a few things it needs cut and paste off web sites and email. Rating: Reviewed by Jake Linder on 07/12/2009 N97 is the worst phone I have ever owned. It is very very buggy. Interface lag. Unresponsive UI, app crashes, phone stalls and massive amount of dropped calls. I was so patience, waited for the 2.0 firmware, but it did not solve anything. I really think their arrogance against there N97 user base says alot. Support "There is nothing wrong, but we can exchange your phone". I am on my third phone. It's not the phone, it's their buggy Symbian platform.. :( Rating: Reviewed by Adora on 07/12/2009 I have had my N97 for nearly 5 months now, and i have to say i love it. i admit the phone was a bit buggy when it first came out, but the fimeware updates have fixed so many of the problems that it runs like a dream now. I use my N97 for everything and hardly find myself using my laptop anymore.There are of course still a few bad points, the battery life is rubbish and i frequently have to charge the phone, also I have a problem with the charging point, it seems to have become like a loose connecton and charging the phone has become a nightmare, but the phone is still under warrenty, so a trip to a nokia care point should soon fix that. All in all the pro's far outway the cons and i am glad i purchased this phone. Rating: Reviewed by Ben on 01/12/2009 I've had this phone for a few months now & I'm finding it brilliant. I've updated the firmware to 2.0 & now have smooth scrolling & better memory & power management. The known bug with the unlock slide button has now been fixed & it is completely responsive. And the odd crash I experienced on the previous firmware has completely disappeared. The feature set is superb, my previous phone was a samsung omnia with a very similar feature set (which I also loved by the way) but the ease of use of the N97 makes this so much better. & the Ovi store is gaining more & more apps by the day. I'm not sure why some people make out that a resistive screen needs to be almost punched to make it work - it doesn't. A very slight finger sweep will see my phone scrolling & selecting like a dream. I've never had to use the stylus as it's so finger friendly. Overall I'd find it hard not to recommend this phone. I've never owned an iphone so won't try to compare the two but I'm not sorry I bought this. The physical keypad was what swung the decision for me, after missing it when I had the samsung Omnia & I'm very happy indeed with my choice. If you want an iphone - go buy an iphone, I'm sure you'll be very happy with it. Don't whine & moan about how another phone isn't as good. If you want a phone with a physical qwerty keyboard then this has to be in the top 3 devices out there in my opinion. Rating: Reviewed by samantha on 30/11/2009 i absolutly love my n97, i've had it for about 4 months now, and i still discover features :) it is a great phone, packed with things that will keep you smiling. Fair enough the n97 has it's faults, but then again wouldn't you expect technology like this to have them faults. I can't complain to be honest, the only thing i dislike is that nokia ovi store is a bit of a joke. They obviously rig the 3 star system and they delete negative reviews which really gets on my wick. If the ovi store was improved and nokia would let people be honest and host thier opinion i would give this phone 5 stars but i'm going to give it four. Overall i love this phone, even when it has it's glitches. Rating: Reviewed by james on 26/11/2009 I have had the N97 since july and have given up on it. I rang vodafone, and the guy i spoke to said they've stopped selling this fone and are recalling faulty ones. I was offered the blackberry 9700 Bold but i prefer the iphone, so i'll be able to swap in january, anyone looking to buy this fone please stay away. It will appear as brilliant at first, but then you'll realise the software on the fone is too buggy. Rating: Reviewed by neal edwards on 25/11/2009 fantastic had a couple of weeks crashed twice but otherwise outstanding better than the n96 by a long shot Rating: Reviewed by Paul on 24/11/2009 A very unreliable phone. Its drops calls, the camera lens scratches when sliding the cover, the phone memory is small causing unstable behavior, you have to rub the screen the get it to move, the slider switch is prone to come off, and to top off the system has more bugs than a rain forest even with update version 20. Rating: Reviewed by peter allen on 24/11/2009 hello there ive had my n97 for a couple of months now ,the 2nd one to be exact yes they are a very impressive phone packed with all the features you ever need and i am so happy with the phone .when its workin properly yes it does freeze alot but weirdly seems to work better the more stuff thats on it ive just done a complete factory reset and its returned to the slow old phone it once was , n95 springs to mind, if the n97 had the frezzing issues sorted out then it would be un stoppable but as this is a big issue its very annoying to say the least peterallen.27@hotmail.co.uk Rating: Reviewed by n on 22/11/2009 it suxs Rating: Reviewed by Jake on 20/11/2009 I was informed by the man in the vodafone store that this was THE phone to have. On his opinion i signed the contract and have had my N97 since release, at first i thought, this is a great phone, GPS, internet and all the other stuff it others. Then it started to freeze and crash, i let a go it was a new phone and i new there would be software updates that would hopefully sort this. i have downloaded these updates expecting each time for them to be fixed, this was not the case and i am just giving up on it. However i am writing this review using my N97 and in many ways it is a great phone but the bugs it has do make it an annoying and tedious phone to use. i will be switching to the iPhone shortly if they cannot fix the issues EVERYONE is having with the phone. Rating: Reviewed by gjp on 14/11/2009 i just bought my n97 so far so good. internet connection is fast. the only problem i have is the movie player it doesnt seems to recognize mp4 format which i converted. Rating: Reviewed by john on 08/11/2009 its as simple as this... This IS nokias answer to the i-phone which i hate! the i phone is just a fancy i-pod with a phone and text facility. However, the nokia provides more which i feel is more practicle, better facilities i.e. not touch screen text, better memory and just a better all round phone! Rating: Reviewed by N PRADEEP on 08/11/2009 BETTER THAN THE BEST Rating: Reviewed by Alison on 07/11/2009 This is the second Nokia N97 I have owned, the first was a black one which I had for a few weeks, then decided to trade it in for a macbook. The one I have now is a white one with an upgraded firmware which I have to say makes a noticeable difference, a lot of the buggy things I noticed first time around seem to have been resolved. The hardware is a nice looking bit of kit, I prefer it in the white, it seems to be made very well, the qwerty keyboard with its amazing hinge mechanism is particularly clever. The phone has an amazing 32gb memory storage on it with an additional slot for further memory cards if neccesary! It seems reasonably responsive with the touchscreen and the 3.5 screen really makes browsing an enjoyable experience. I have used other touchscreens but miss using a physical qwerty so this is perfect for my needs. Was slightly dissapointed in quality of sound after using an E series device, but sound acceptable and I am sure with my own earbuds, this w ill be improved. Camera is very good, liked being able to upload to facebook quickly. Keyboard intuitive and great to use. There are quite a lot of applications included with the phone but you can also browse the Ovi store which you can find further applications that are free and that you can purchase. I think this phone offers a good user experience and offers an all round experience. No phone can offer everything but this comes pretty close. Rating: Reviewed by Colin on 06/11/2009 This phone has/had so much potential, however my first ever Nokia experience has been a bad one. When I first got the phone it worked really well, only crashing when I tried to run too many apps at the same time. Now for a "smartphone" it should be able to handle this but because nokia decided 128Mb RAM would be sufficient, its the first problem I noticed. After a couple of weeks I was able to try the GPS. Almost useless would a good description. On further investigation, it appears that this is a known issue to Nokia and there is a fix, however you have to send away for repair. Another thing you may have to repair is the "self-harming" camera lense. I didnt notice this until I researched the problems with the GPS, but when I read about the problem I had a look under the camera cover and found several scratches from where the cover has captured dust underneath, and because it is so close to the lense, it has etched into it after time. Im lucky, the scratch has just missed the lenses view, however its only a matter of time. This is another known issue and a replacement cover (which isnt as close to the lense) can be put on. I am led to believe most newer models have this new part. This was all before the upgrade to the V12 firmware... Before I upgraded the firmware to V12 I didnt really have any problems with the phone, all the software worked as expected. However after the update, I have had nothing but problems. Like tom from england, I have the problem where the touchscreen is completely unresponsive, leaving me to lock and unlock the phone sometimes up to 10 times before I give up and use the D-pad. This is also the case where someone calls me, and the screen doesnt respond to answer, so I miss the call, leaving me to wait to recieve a message saying I have a voicemail. There is also a problem with most of the widgets that come standard with the phone (ie Facebook, AccuWeather) in that they dont work at all, due to a "script-error". The new V20 software is due out soon (in the UK, its out everywhere else) and Im hoping that this update makes steps to making this device the phone it should be. The potential is there to see, which is why it has 2 stars instead of 1, but unless this update fixes many of the software problems then it is better staying away from this phone. I hope to get the GPS and self harming lense issue sorted and hopefully Ill have fully working phone. The lack of RAM really lets the phone down as well, so if your easily frustrated, this will be too slow for you. The touchscreen WAS very responsive before I upgraded the firmaware, and I hope that it returns back to this after the next update when it arrives. If you do want this phone, try and hold out until all the issues are resolved, or wait until a similar phone comes on the market Rating: Reviewed by Ryan John on 05/11/2009 Nokia are a disgrace to even think about selling such a terrible device to unfortunate customers. Freezes, won't save photo's, phone unlock doesn't work, won't make phone calls and the touch screen can be very slow and unresponsive. I am now on my 3rd device and can no longer return this one as it's outside my 1 month faulty returns policy. (typical) So i am stuck with a useless handset for 18 long months. Also i was informed by carphone warehouse that Nokia did no test this phone before releasing it. Instead released it expecting customers 2 return the handset and report the faults. Seriously this phone is the worst piece of kit i have ever owned and it really is an absoloute disgrace which nokia should be ashamed of marketing Rating: Reviewed by Billy on 04/11/2009 This phone is the best phone I have ever had. I upgraded to this from the Sony Ericsson W910i, so in fairness, any phone would be better. But this phone literally just blew me away. It has an amazing camera, battery life is okay, ease of use is good and is excellent for the internet. It's also brilliant to text on. Would recommend to anyone! Rating: Reviewed by Jon on 01/11/2009 Since the latest firmware update the N97 is a new phone, this is how it should of been on 1st release, but atleast Nokia are trying to sort the issues. Now a great phone, not perfect but good. Rating: Reviewed by david on 27/10/2009 V20 firmware is out now for the nokia N97 , which makes the phone more responsive, less prone to crashing, more free phone memory, full kinetic scrolling, there is also a fix out for the lens scratching and gps issue from your local nokia service center, i wouldnt swap my nokia n97 for anything Rating: Reviewed by David on 26/10/2009 I am not going to mince words when it comes to describing the N97, which replaced my N95 (another damned awful heap of junk). The N97 is without doubt the worst phone I have ever had. The only good feature is the camera, however; this is temperamental and slow to access. This phone is meant to be a 'smart' phone, aimed at the high end of the business market. It is thus totally hopeless: the touchscreen requires major effort to engage the icons and text messaging without the stylus requires huge amounts of patience, if you have large fingers like me. This phone is full of bugs and even the upgraded firmware fails to resolve the most significant failings. The phone constantly loses signal strength and is wholly unreliable in areas where other phones work with ease with the same operator (Orange). Then there is the freezing and locking of all features, necessitating a switch off and switch back on and this is bad news when trying to use hands free communications. GPS is a complete waste of time and wholly inaccurate as it fails to resolve even simple locations. As for using the Internet - forget it! The phone is far too slow for successful browsing and e-mail is so finicky. Text messaging works well with the QWERTY keyboard but has anyone found how to engage the comma sign? Otherwise, texting is wholly frustrating the phone being quite unintuitive requiring the user to constantly 'direct' the phone to carry out standard tasks. Just how many of us actually video call? At the very least a 'smart' phone should have some basic second-guessing built in to the software, it should know who and how you mainly message your commonest contacts but, no! You have to do all the work. Another really annoying fault is that one's messages have a habit of disappearing to another location in the memory, necessitating hooking the thing up to a PC to try and sort it out. I'm now on my second N97, the first just giving up and slowing to an unusabl e level. The second phone is about to get drop-kicked, just like I nearly did so many times with my N95. This is my very last Nokia phone. Moreover, £500 on a phone, which cannot even be relied uopon to hold a call without cutting out or the battery failing without notice is beyond belief. I am on a 24 month contract with Orange and bought mine via the Carphone Warehouse, meaning I am apparently 'locked in'. We shall see...If they fail to resolve my complaints re this phone, and fail to allow me to replace same with a different make, I shall invoke the Sale of Goods Act via the local Trading Standards officer. We shall see how Orange behave when I cancel my payments! WARNING! Do not buy this phone unless you have the 'patience of a Saint'! Rating: Reviewed by Dj MINT on 25/10/2009 Had the N97 on vodafone for a few days now ,well no bugs , cant find nothing wrong with it. I had the n95 before i dont think you will ever get better than that handset but this comes a close second 8 ot of 10 . Rating: Reviewed by Chris on 24/10/2009 This is a really poor phone, I was warned by so many people not to get it but I was taken in by its stunning looks. I have never owned a Nokia before and I will not be owning one ever again. In 3 weeks this phone has crashed, froze, turned off, dropped calls, reset itself, the ringtone changes itself and the internet is so slow. I have never been so dosappointed by anything in my life and will be exchanging it for any Sony Ericsson as soon as possible. If I could give it less than 1 star I would. Rating: Reviewed by nottmbantam on 22/10/2009 Right - I've now had this phone for four months.When I first got it, I thought it was great and gave it five stars, but now four month down the line, I'm ready to sell it and move on from Nokia. I bought it sim free so it's not locked to any network, which means I can access the newest Firmware upgrades as soon as they are out. THe last one was in August (v12) but since then, we have been waiting for v20, and believe me - it is needed. My phone freezes if I take more than a few phone calls a day - the caller will hang up, but the screen just hangs. No other option but to re-boot. I'm really hoping the new FW can sort this out. But really, my main gripe is with Nokia themselves. THey have been very slow in bringing out the new FW. I use a Mac, and the iSync programme will not work with this N97 - basically due to the software on the N97 being such a mess, it simply will not work with iSync. Most otehr things work well, esp Opera Mini 5 Beta version, it's really nice to use, and I use it very frequently. There are however MAJOR hardware issues too. THe GPS is huge issue, with many N97 owners reporting their phone's inability to get a signal fix. THis has to be repaired physically - no software fix. In addition, the camera lens cover is widely reported to actually SCRATCH THE CAMERA LENS! How absurd is that? Again, a hardware fix. I really do think I bought a phone that's going to be phased out very very soon. I do like the physical keyboard though, and have got used to the layout, so will def want that on my next phone. However, due to Nokia arrogance and ignorance of its customers, I really do not want another Nokia device. My advice - Samsung i8920i or the SE Satio ( both Symbian ) . Possibly the new Motorola Droid ( Android ) . Only the Motorola has the physical slide out k/b. THere is of course the Nokia N900 but I don't want to even talk about that! Good Luck Rating: Reviewed by John on 21/10/2009 I dont know why this phone is getting such a hammering in so many reviews listed here. I always had Nokias and this is by far the best phone they have made in my oppinion. It does take some time to get used to but it is well worth the effort and I love it.It has everything I want in a phone and I wouldnt swop it for anything. Yes it is pricey but you normally get what you pay for and this phone os no exception. Rating: Reviewed by Mocha on 20/10/2009 I've had this phone for a while and it's been ok but PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS PHONE IF YOU INTEND TO TRAVEL ABROAD AS THERE IS NO SIMPLE WAY TO DISABLE DATA ROAMING AND AVOID PHANTOM CHARGES. I'm currently incurring about 3 euros a day travelling in Poland and I don't know what to do. Seems its a common problem with all the Nokias unlike the iphone and android phones that have one-click solutions. Stupid Nokia. Rating: Reviewed by Steve on 18/10/2009 I've had my N97 for two months now, and must be really lucky compared to all the people having problems with it. I too previously had N95 8gig, and it was the best phone I'd ever had, and got better with firmware updates, as will N97.My phones worked great, put loads of apps and themes on it, email , calender, camera, video player and music player all work great (Over 20 gig of music and video installed) The qwerty keyboard works great, screen superb and no problems with camera lens cover so far. It's not perfect, the speakers haven't got the same volume and quality of the N95, I think the Camera could be better and the whole touchscreen experience will improve when V2.0 firmware is released, but it is a first class handset/mobile computer and I love it !! Rating: Reviewed by anom on 17/08/2009 Still not as good as the iphone. Rating: Reviewed by Pahan on 03/06/2009 this is a awesome phone Rating: Consumer Reviews from other websites (100 reviews)Nokia N97 Reviews at Mobile Phones UK (100 reviews)
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